Calendar

Upcoming Performances

February 4, 2019:
7:00 pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
The Ithaca College Voice and Piano faculties present a performance of the famous 24 Italian Songs and Arias, with interpretations ranging from historically-informed performances to Romantic expressions. These seminal works comprise the basis for classical singing today, and their beautiful melodies and timeless drama remain the cornerstone of vocal study.

March 16, 2019: Songs of Hope and Inspiration - Irondequoit Chorale
3:00 pm | 644 Titus Ave, Rochester NY
Join us for an afternoon of music that is uplifting, comforting, and peaceful. I will play and sing a solo set of art songs and original folk songs, and join the choir to perform some favorite spirituals and familiar tunes.

May 1, 2019: Faure Requiem - Hobart William Smith Community Chorus
7:00 pm | St. John's Chapel, Geneva NY
The HWS singers will present an evening of chamber and oratorio music by Faure and others.

Past Performances

December 8, 2018: Christmas Cantata Concert
3:00 pm | First Presbyterian Church, Pittsford NY
Welcoming in the Yuletide season, chorus and soloists will perform "What Sweeter Music" by John Leavitt and excerpts from Part I of Handel's Messiah.

November 27, 2018: Bernstein Tribute Concert
8:15 pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY
The Ithaca College Voice and Brass Faculties present an evening of music by Leonard Bernstein. Come celebrate the centennial of this great American composer and conductor!

October 20, 2018: HWS Chorale: The Ways of Zion Do Mourn
7:30 pm | St. John's Chapel, 630 S. Main St, Geneva NY
Handel's setting of Jeremiah's Lamentations for chorus and soloists was commissioned in 1737 for the funeral of Queen Caroline of Great Britain. The Hobart and William Smith Chorale is conducted by Professor Robert Cowles.

September 23, 2018: Porchfest
12:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 707 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca NY
Porchfest is a folk music festival held on the porches of the Fall Creek and Northside neighborhoods of Ithaca, NY. I'll be playing some originals and covers with my guitars and banjos, and some of my Ithaca College students will join me on my front porch. Come on over and pull up a lawn chair!

September 17, 2018: After Dinner Mint: Faculty Showcase Recital
7:00 pm | Hockett Recital Hall, Ithaca College
Our faculty showcase recital series has the brevity and refreshing nature of an after dinner mint: it's short, sweet, and a perfect note of indulgence at the end of your day (and beginning of your night). This recital will feature faculty chamber groups performing vocal pieces that were originally written for instruments.

August 10-12, 2018: Finger Lakes Opera
Canandaigua, NY
I will be singing in FLO's summer season productions of Die Fledermaus, Little Red's Most Unusual Day, and Opera Pops concert. Visit fingerlakesopera.org for more information.

June 8, 2018: First Inversion: Another Glorious Day!
7:30 pm | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, Rochester NY
To close our fourth season, First Inversion offers exuberant, reflective, and evocative music celebrating the beauty of the earth. Jake Runestad's "Come to the Woods" sets text from John Muir's journals to take listeners to the top of a majestic fir tree to experience a summer storm. The concert opens with pieces depicting sunrise and morning light and closes with a moving reflection on a star-filled summer sky, and features poetry by James Agee, Wendell Berry, Mary Coleridge, Robert Herrick, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Psalms, the Song of Solomon, and Walt Whitman. Familiar and lesser-known composers of the 20th and 21st centuries share with us their musical interpretation of these timeless words.

May 11-12, 2018: Madrigalia: Earthkeeping
7:30 pm | Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1040 East Avenue, Rochester NY
Earthkeeping addresses environmental issues by attending to environmental concerns in a spirit of love and concern for the object of our care: our planet, our home, the Earth.
Madrigalia will sing about one of the most pressing issues of our day with works that not only explore the preciousness and amazing range of our Earth, but also its fragility and precarious future.
This project is made possible through a generous anonymous donation, and with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts at the Livingston Arts Center, a member supported organization.

February 10, 2018: A Madrigalia Cabaret: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
6:30 pm | Clover Center for Arts & Spirituality, Rochester NY
Back for our second year! Join us for a magical night of singing and food celebrating love, with all its crazy ups and downs. Hear Madrigalia's performers sing solos and small group selections from musicals, jazz, pop - and more!
The menu features a delectable appetizer course with sparkling wine followed by three additional delicious courses (vegetarian option available) at your table. As you are served and entertained by members of Madrigalia in cabaret style, your meal is accompanied by samplings of both red and white wine for your tasting pleasure! Please see our website for tickets. Hope to see you there!

December 17, 2017: Handel's Messiah: Sing-Along!
6:30 pm | First Presbyterian Church, Pittsford NY
Harold McAulliffe and I will lead an evening of Yuletide celebration with Handel's Messiah. Solo and choral movements from Parts I and III will be presented, and the audience is encouraged to sing along! Bring your own score or use one of ours, or download a PDF using a link provided.

December 10, 2017: Britten - Ceremony of Carols
10:30 am | First Universalist Church of Rochester
Britten composed A Ceremony of Carols while on board a ship during a perilous five-week crossing of the North Atlantic in World War II, as he returned to England from the United States. Rooted in traditional 15th- and 16th-century carols, the piece opens and closes with the plainchanted Hodie, and the intermittent carol settings tell the well-known Christmas story.

December 8, 2017: Madrigalia Holiday Concert
7:30 pm | The Clover Center for Arts & Spirituality, 1101 Clover Street, Rochester
Madrigalia presents its annual, expansive interpretation of the December holidays with celebrations both secular and sacred, meditations on the darkness of the winter solstice, and words of hope. Featuring the Bach Children's Chorus.

December 6, 2017: Madrigalia: Live from Hochstein
12:10 - 12:50 pm | Hochstein School of Music, 50 Plymouth Ave N, Rochester
Madgrigalia presents a concert of holiday celebration as part of Hochstein's free lunchtime "brown bag" concert series. The performance will be hosted live by WXXI Classical 91.5's Mona Seghatoleslami and broadcast live on WXXI Classical 91.5/ 90.3 FM.

November 10, 2017: The Mikado - Off-Monroe Players
8:00 pm | Salem United Church, 60 Bittner St., Rochester, NY
This updated take on Gilbert and Sullivan's classic comedy takes place in the fictional town of Rochacha. I'll be making my Rochester stage debut as Yum-Yum.

November 6, 2017: Three Little Maids on Good Day Rochester
7:00 am | Fox Rochester WHUF, Local Channel 13
Start your morning with a charming trio of Three Little Maids from OMP's upcoming production of "The Mikado." Tue in to channel 13 or http://foxrochester.com/news/good-day-rochester to watch the segment and learn more about the production!

October 26, 2017: Heroes: A Video Game Symphony
8:00 pm | Kodak Hall, Eastman Theater
Embark upon a hero's journey told through the amazing worlds of the most popular and beloved video games of all time! The soundtracks will come to life with arrangements from The Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy, BioShock, Portal, and more. The music is performed live by the RPO and Madrigalia, enhanced with stunning visual projections. I will be featured in a solo movement from Dragon Age: Origins.

October 17, 2017: Vocal Master Class
10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Webster Thomas High School, 800 Five Mile Line Rd, Webster NY 14580
This Master Class will feature students of Webster-Thomas High School. I will offer feedback and guidance to several young vocalists as they perform for their peers and a small audience.

July 1, 2017: Grant Park: Canada's 150th Birthday Celebration
7:30 pm | Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago IL
Oh Canada! The Canadian Brass join the Grant Park Orchestra for an evening of symphonic suites, folk songs, blues, and the Beatles, all with a Canadian flair in honor of Canada's sesquicentennial. I'll be performing Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi, a few tunes made famous by Anne Murray, and some other folksongs. Lucas Waldin conducts.

May 15, 2017: Music of the Baroque - Day of Judgement
7:30 pm | Harris Theater, Chicago IL

May 14, 2017: Music of the Baroque - Day of Judgement
7:30 pm | North Shore Center, Skokie IL
The concert season closes with Music of the Baroque's first performances in 25 years of Georg Philipp Telemann's powerful oratorio The Day of Judgment. From the opening call of the trumpet, through earthquakes, thunder, and devastation, to the final celestial chorus at the gates of heaven, this vivid work makes for a truly gripping evening of musical story-telling.

April 27, 2017: Muti, Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, and Lupu
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Riccardo Muti leads Radu Lupu, who is "as close to being the embodiment of pure music as one can get" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), in Beethoven's noble Emperor Concerto. Liszt's Dante Symphony is a symphonic poem full of fire and fury that depicts Dante's Divine Comedy, in which I'll be featured as a soloist.

April 22, 2017: MM Recital - Nathan Canfield, piano
6:00 pm | MCR, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
As a collaborator on Nathan's recital, I will sing three lovely Schubert songs. Other selections on the program include Britten and Brahms.

April 18, 2017: CSO at the Movies - Amadeus
7:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Milos Forman's sumptuous period epic Amadeus is a soaring celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. With unforgettable performances by Tom Hulce as Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as his rival Antonio Salieri, Amadeus tells the story of Salieri and the envy that consumes him as he discovers that the divine musical gifts he longs for have been bestowed on a bawdy, impish young composer. Don't miss a stunning presentation of this screen triumph, winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, with Mozart's most celebrated works performed live by Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

April 2, 2017: Bach - Saint John Passion
3:00 pm | St. John Brebeuf Church, Niles, IL
The Niles Metropolitan Chorus and Musica Lumina Orechestra present the Saint John Passion, one of Bach's most beloved works.

March 29, 2017: Recital: Songs and Arias
6:30 pm | CJE SeniorLife, Chicago, IL
With my good friend Brian Locke at the piano, I'll present a program of selections from the art song and opera repertoire.

March 23, 2017: Defiant Requiem
7:30 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Created and conducted by Maestro Murry Sidlin, "Defiant Requiem" is the story of how, in the depths of the Holocaust, within the notorious Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp, one man's dream gave birth to an unparalleled act of defiance. The multi-media production with full concert choir and orchestra commemorates the courageous Jewish prisoners who learned, mastered, and performed Verdi's "Requiem Mass" as a statement of defiance and resistance.

March 12, 2017: The Music of Cary Ratcliff - Rochester's Musician of the Year
4:00 pm | Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY
Cary Ratcliff has been named 2017's Musician of the Year by Mu Phi Epsilon. As a young singer in Cary's church choir in Pittsford, NY, I loved singing his music. I'm very glad to be part of this concert celebrating his compositions and achievements!

February 23-25, 2017: Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible with Gerard Depardieu
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
The collaboration between Sergei Prokofiev and director Sergei Eisenstein was one of the most brilliant in 20th-century art. Riccardo Muti leads the CSO and Chicago Symphony Chorus in Prokofiev's music from Eisenstein's epic film Ivan the Terrible, telling the riveting story of a bloodthirsty tyrant. The performance features narration by internationally renowned actor Gerard Depardieu.

December 24, 2016: Christmas Eve Services
5:00 pm and 11:00 pm | St. John's Lutheran Church, Wilmette IL
I'll be cantoring the 5:00 service, and singing with some wonderful colleagues at the late candlelight service.

December 13, 2016: Messiah Sing-Along
7:30 pm | The Mather, Evanston IL
Come and sing along with piano, string quartet, and soloists as we enjoy the first part of Handel's monumental oratorio.

December 6, 2016: Final DMA Recital
6:00 pm | Galvin Recital Hall, Northwestern University
For my final recital at NU, I'll be performing contemporary works by living female composers. The first half will feature three pieces by Kaija Saariaho: Changing Light, Jing, and Lonh. In the second half I'll be joined by a string quartet (Rachelle Puccini, Hannah Christiansen, Sarah van der Ploeg, and Nora Barton) to present a new arrangement of songs by Joni Mitchell. I will also perform a handful of original songs with guitar.

December 1-3, 2016: Handel's Royal Fireworks
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
George Frideric Handel was a master composer of both orchestral and choral music, penning some of the most influential vocal compositions of the Baroque era. Nicholas Kraemer, a leading specialist in Handel's music, conducts an all-Handel program of works ranging from the stirring anthem Zadok the Priest to the jubilant Music for the Royal Fireworks.

November 10-12, 2016: Brahms - A German Requiem
8:00 pm (Nov. 10 and 12) and 1:30 pm (Nov. 11) | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Of Brahms's A German Requiem, Clara Schumann wrote, "It is a truly tremendous piece of art which moves the entire being in a way little else does." Jaap van Zweden returns to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in this emotional work. Mozart's Masonic Funeral Music and Wagner's groundbreaking Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde open the program.

October 23, 2016: Haydn's Creation
7:30 pm | St. John Brebeuf Church, Niles IL
Marek Rachelski leads the Niles Metropolitan Chorus and Musica Lumina Orchestra in Haydn's masterpiece Oratorio. The work depicts the creation of the world, drawing text from Milton's Paradise Lost and biblical sources.

August 13, 2016: The Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra presents L'elisir d'amore
7:30 pm | 100 W. Cossitt Avenue, La Grange, IL
Set in a small Italian village, Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" follows simple, kind-hearted Nemorino as he longs for lively and coquettish Adina. The hapless youth turns to the scheming Dulcamara, who convinces him that a common beverage is actually an Elixir of Love. The magic works...but not in the way Nemorino expects! Featuring: Alison Wahl, Adina; Jay Morrissey, Nemorino; Keven Keys, Dulcamara; and the Salt Creek Chamber Orchestra with Tim Semanik, conductor

July 23, 2016: Opera for the Young: The Magic Flute
11:00 am | Martin Theater, Ravinia Festival
OFTY brings its touring production of "The Magic Flute" to the Ravinia Festival, complete with spaceships and aliens. In this tale of friendship, bravery, and adventure I will reprise my role as Princess Pamina, second-in-command of the Queen's dark army.

June 25, 2016: Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Muti Conducts Bruckner
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Riccardo Muti closes the CSO's 125th season with awe-inspiring power and grace. Bruckner's mighty Te Deum mixes granite-like choral utterances with some of his most beautiful music. Bruckner, who left his last Symphony incomplete at his own death in 1896, regarded its noble slow third movement as his own "farewell to life."

May 22, 2016: American Bach Society Vocal Competition
1:00 pm | Peter Hall, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
I will be performing as one of ten finalists in this competition hosted by the American Bach Society and the Bach Choir of Bethlehem.

May 16, 2016: Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
I will be making my debut at Symphony Center with the Civic Orchestra alongside my friend and colleague Sarah Vander Ploeg! We will perform Mendelssohn's brilliant musical accompaniment to William Shakespeare's play, conducted by Nicholas Kraemer. This special presentation will include a live performance of Shakespeare's timeless text adapted by Beyond the Score Creative Director Gerard McBurney.

April 21, 2016: Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Muti Conducts Verdi's "Falstaff"
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Riccardo Muti's cycle of Giuseppe Verdi's three Shakespeare operas culminates in performances of Falstaff. With his incomparable musicianship, command of style, and unique understanding of Verdi's genius, Maestro Muti will make Falstaff both a memorable highlight of the season and a crowning achievement of his Verdi performances in Chicago. Singing the title role is Ambrogio Maestri, "the most sought after Falstaff singer of his time" (The New York Times). I am understudying the role of Nanetta.

March 28 - April 1, 2016: Opera for the Young: The Magic Flute
TBA

March 7-11, 2016: Opera for the Young: The Magic Flute
TBA

February 22-26, 2016: Opera for the Young: The Magic Flute
Beloit, WI

February 17, 2016: Vaughan Williams 'Dona Nobis Pacem' - Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
10:30 am | Uihlein Hall, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee WI
My debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will be a performance of Vaughan Williams's beautiful piece for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Drawing on text from the Mass, the Bible, Walt Whitman's Drum Taps and a political speech, this 1936 work is a plea for peace that laments past wars and fears another war to come. I will be performing alongside renowned bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen, and joined by several award-winning high school choirs under the direction of Randall Swiggum.

February 8-12, 2016: Opera for the Young: The Magic Flute
Minneapolis, MN

January 18-22, 2016: Opera for the Young: The Magic Flute
Milwaukee, WI - Marinette, WI - Suring/Gillett, WI
Touring schools throughout the Midwest, I am singing Pamina in OFTY's production of The Magic Flute.

December 10, 2015: Handel's Messiah
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
One of the most beloved choral masterpieces of all time, Handel's Messiah has become a musical gem of the Christmas season. Bernard Labadie leads the CSO in a thrilling performance featuring a superb line-up of soloists and the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

November 22, 2015: The Magic Flute - Opera for the Young
12:30 pm | Blackhawk Country Club, Madison WI
I will be singing Pamina in Ofty's new production! The Magic Flute is an enchanting introduction to the genius of Mozart. OFtY's space-age adaptation tells the story of the noble Prince Tamino, the heroic Princess Pamina, the birdman Papageno, the evil Queen of the Night, and her assistant, the Three-headed Lady.
Sixteen students perform on stage as fanciful space creatures, including Sarastro and his "Alien Council of Wisdom." They'll also appear as an enormous dragon.
The Magic Flute's beautiful melodies and comical characters delight youngsters, while thematic points concerning facing challenges and learning to forgive generate thoughtful discussion.

November 15, 2015: Elmhurst Symphony - Mozart Madness
3:00 pm | Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church, Elmhurst, Illinois
I will be singing scenes as Fiordiligi and Zerlina in renditions of favorite arias and scenes from Mozart's operatic masterpieces, complete with staging and supertitles. From the dramatic overture and arias of "Don Giovanni" through gorgeous selections from "The Marriage of Figaro" and the hilarious Act I finale of "Cosi fan tutte", you'll enjoy the acting and singing of this talented cast.
Behind the Music Stand with Ted Hatmaker begins 1 hour and 15 minutes before the concert.
Presenters: Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra; Stephen Alltop, Conductor

September 18, 2015: Andina: A Long-Lost Opera
7:30 pm | Athenaeum Theater, Chicago IL
Andina is the 80-year-old work of prodigal composer Eustasio Rosales, and the score has never been performed. Arlen Parsa, Rosales's great-grandson, discovered the manuscript and began researching composer's story. Now Parsa will fulfill his family legacy and resurrect the show! The opera is full of beautiful music and amorous characters. I will sing the role of Rosa, who is torn between her lover, Don Carlos, and her jealous childhood companion, Juan.

August 8, 2015: Prelude Concert
6:00 pm | Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood
This concert of late Romantic and 20th-century German music will include my singing a set of songs by Alma Mahler, as well as a duet with mezzo-soprano Zoe Brand.

July 25, 2015: Festival of Contemporary Music
2:30 pm | Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood
This concert will showcase two world premieres, both commissioned for the TMC 75th anniversary. I will be featured on a new composition by Michael Gandolfi.

July 13, 2015: Prelude Concert
6:00 pm | Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood
I will be singing three songs by Caplet on this program of late-Romantic music.

July 7, 2015: Songs and Poems from the Time of WWI
8:00 pm | Ozawa Hall, TMC

June 19 - August 17, 2015: Tanglewood Music Center: Vocal Arts Program

This summer I will be a Fellow for the Tanglewood Music Center's 75th anniversary year. Fellows in the Vocal Arts Program participate in a wide range of art song, chamber music, new music and orchestral projects working with resident and visiting faculty artists. All Fellows take part in weekly master-classes with legendary Phyllis Curtin, and in master-classes with resident faculty including Kayo Iwama, Alan Smith, Dawn Upshaw, and Howard Watkins, as well as visiting artists to be announced.
In 2015, TMC Vocal Fellows will participate in an evening of opera excerpts with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. The study of contemporary works is an integral part of the vocal program at Tanglewood, and there will be significant opportunities for solo and chamber performances, including many world premieres during the Festival of Contemporary Music.

June 10, 2015: "Simply Sondheim" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
8:00 pm | Symphony Hall, Boston MA
America's Orchestra will honor America's greatest living musical theatre composer with an all-new tribute celebrating his remarkable body of work. Hearing the range of his music -- from the scores of Follies, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods, to the lyrics of West Side Story and Gypsy -- performed by a full symphonic orchestra, is a rare treat. Broadway stars Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, along with myself and other fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, will join the orchestra to bring Sondheim's remarkable music to life.

May 18, 2015: Music of the Baroque: War and Peace
7:30 pm | Harris Theater, Chicago IL

May 17, 2015: Music of the Baroque: War and Peace
7:30 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston IL
Two brilliant choral works bring the season to a stirring close as Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque orchestra, chorus, and soloists in a moving musical exploration of the perils of war and the joys of victory.

February 19, 2015: Muti Conducts Mozart Requiem
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
When he died at only 35 years of age, Mozart left his Requiem uncompleted, yet it is undoubtedly among his most magnificent achievements. Who can forget the fiery "Confutatis," which alternates between male voices damning the wicked and ethereal women's voices invoking the Lord to take innocent souls to heaven? Or the poignant "Lacrimosa"? Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder opens the program with Mozart's turbulent Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor.

February 1, 2015: Muti Conducts Prokofiev and Scriabin
2:00 pm | Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Catch the CSO in the Empire State! "The passion and dramatic verve Muti masterfully elicited ... is simply magnificent," said NPR about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's music director. In this program, Riccardo Muti conducts Scriabin's Symphony No. 1, a passionate ode to art - the composer's first major orchestral work. Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, a cantata drawn from his complete score to Eisenstein's classic film, comprises music accompanying some of the film's most memorable scenes, including the grim chant of invading Teutonic knights, the Russian people's rousing exhortation to battle, a heartfelt lament, and the Battle on the Ice - one of the greatest fusions of image and music ever made.

January 22, 2015: Muti Conducts Prokofiev and Scriabin
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO in works by two Russian composers for whom he has a remarkable affinity. Scriabin's First Symphony is a glorious six-movement work that culminates in a triumphant chorus, yet it also holds much tender lyricism. Prokofiev's cantata Alexander Nevsky, by contrast, is full of fire and steel, its imaginative orchestration and rousing choruses evoking Russia's medieval victory over invading Teutonic knights.

December 13, 2014: CSO: Welcome Yule
3:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Now entering its 20th season, Welcome Yule has thrilled audiences of all ages with musical holiday magic featuring members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Save your spot in Orchestra Hall for this special milestone program that will feature new surprises and old favorites.

November 30, 2014: Music of the Baroque: The Christmas Oratorio
3:00 pm | North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie IL
From the heaven-storming timpani of the opening movement, the Christmas story unfolds in dramatic narrative, moving arias, and inspiring choruses - performed with the passion and style Music of the Baroque always brings to Bach's great choral works.

October 26, 2014: Hymnfest: "Hark, A Thrilling Voice is Sounding"
7:00 pm | Alice Millar Chapel, Evanston IL
Our Hymnfest will include some stunning new arrangements and anthems composed especially for this event for large brass ensemble, organ, timpani, chorus and congregation. Be prepared to sing along!

October 19, 2014: Music of the Baroque: Mozart Requiem
7:30 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston IL
The concert season opens with music of transcendent genius and powerful emotion. Nicholas Kraemer leads the orchestra, chorus, and soloists in Mozart's great Requiem Mass, together with the Linz Symphony and revelatory brief choral works by Haydn and Beethoven.

September 18, 2014: Muti Conducts Beethoven 9
8:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Join us for a rousing start to the 2014/15 season when Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Beethoven's most glorious and jubilant masterpiece. An exhilarating testament to the human spirit, Beethoven's Ninth bursts with brooding power and kinetic energy and culminates in the exultant hymn, "Ode to Joy."

September 15, 2014: Musicians Club of Women recital series
11:00 am | 65 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604
Pianist Rachael Kerr and I will present a program and collaborate with trombonist Hana Belogavec in this afternoon concert for the Musicians Club of Women.

May 12, 2014: Premiere Compositions of Social Engagement
12:15 pm | Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center
From Civil War-era campaign songs to protest songs of the 1960s to today, composers have harnessed their craft to express their ideas in the hopes of making the world a better place. This concert collects several premiere works, including "Blackwater" by Randall West. Presented in collaboration with Access Contemporary Music (ACM).

May 11, 2014: Civitas Ensemble
1:00 pm | Merit School of Music, 38 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL
This recital will include a performance of the witty and entertaining "My Aunt Gives me a Clarinet Lesson" by Elizabeth Alexander. Schubert's beloved herald of Spring may make an encore appearance...you'll have to come and find out!

May 9, 2014: Contemporary Music Ensemble - "Goblin Market" (Kernis)
7:30 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
With Alan Pierson, guest conductor. This concert is part of this spring's campus residency by Aaron Jay Kernis, winner of Northwestern's 2012 Nemmers Prize in Composition. His melodrama, "Goblin Market," is the centerpiece of the program.

May 3, 2014: little match girl passion - David Lang
8:00 pm | Gray Center Lab, University of Chicago
directed by dado
music direction by alex monroe
featuring work by paul somers//
and
JOHNNY CASSEROLE!
documentation/lauren beck//
butchery/david Bryson//
light//mike durst
Presented as part of Funeral for Ortolan, the first of two 2014 Department of Visual Arts Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibitions.
Supported by the Art|Science Initiative at the University of Chicago and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

April 29, 2014: Outreach Recital
7:30 pm | The Mather, Evanston IL
Pianist Lara Saldanha an I will present a program of French and German art song, Italian opera, and Musical Theater favorites.

April 13, 2014: Northshore Concert Band: Echoes of Light
3:00 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston IL
Fanfare for a New Era was written as a celebration of Lt. Col. Lowell E. Graham's appointment as Commander of the United States Air Force Band. The work, composed by Jack Stamp, opens with an energetic trumpet motif that is expanded and developed through a variety of characters and atmospheres.
Also featured on the program is Frank Ticheli's Angels in the Architecture, a work that unfolds as a dramatic conflict between the two extremes of human existence: one divine, the other evil. The work begins and ends with an "angel," represented by a solo voice, who sings a Shaker melody meant to inspire purity and light. Other representations of light - played by instruments rather than sung - include a traditional Hebrew song of peace and the well-known 16th-century hymn "Old Hundredth." These three borrowed songs, despite their varied religious origins, are meant to transcend any one religion, representing the more universal human ideals of peace, hope, and love.
Program to include:
Jack Stamp - Fanfare for a New Era
Frank Ticheli - Angels in the Architecture
James Curnow - Rejouissance
Derek Bourgeois - Serenade Op. 22
Philip Sparke - Dance Movements

April 4, 2014: Music of the Baroque: The Creation
8:00 pm | Balboa Theatre, San Diego CA

March 31, 2014: Music of the Baroque: The Creation
7:30 pm | Harris Theater, Chicago IL

March 30, 2014: Music of the Baroque: The Creation
7:30 pm | North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie IL
The creation of the universe unfolds in vivid musical pictures as Franz Joseph Haydn takes us from darkness and chaos, to the emergence of life, to the pleasures of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Considered by many, including Haydn himself, to be the composer's greatest achievement, The Creation is a timeless work of towering imagination and genius.

March 14, 2014: NU Symphonic Band Concert
7:30 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston IL
I will be featured with the NU Symphonic Band on Three Spanish Songs by Matthew Tommasini.

March 14, 2014: The Little Match Girl Passion
11:00 am | Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago
Director Dado's staging of David Lang's Little Match Girl Passion includes extended percussion techniques, an ensemble of actors and singers, and a quartet of soloists.

February 9, 2014: Alice Millar Birthday Concert
7:30 pm | Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern University
A major new work was commissioned for the 50h Anniversary of the Chapel from the composer Joseph Schwantner. The five-movement work, "Chapel Songs" includes sopranos playing handbells while the choir processes, men playing maracas while women sing a highly rhythmic movement, and an ultra-cool movement called "Smoke."

January 18, 2014: Maskarade
7:30 pm | Vittum Theater, 1012 N. Noble St, Chicago IL
Maskarade is an opera in three acts by Carl Nielsen. Known now as the Danish national opera, this light-hearted comedy centers on the grand Masquerade, a place where all may abandon the constraints of their rigid society. I play the handmaiden Pernille.

November 17, 2013: Baroque Music Ensemble: The Virtuosic Baroque
7:00 pm | Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern University
Talented student soloists are featured in Handel's Concerto a due cori No. 1 and arias and duets from his operas. Featuring sopranos Alison Wahl and Elisa Sutherland. Stephen Alltop and David Douglass also lead the ensemble in music by Telemann, Zelenka, and others.

October 27, 2013: Hymnfest XII: O God Our Help in Ages Past
7:30 pm | Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern University
The Alice Millar Chapel Choir will be joined by other choral ensembles from the University in a celebration of hymn singing.

September 21, 2013: Symphony Ball
7:00 pm | Symphony Center, Chicago IL
Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a presentation of memorable works by Verdi, including the Overture to Nabucco; Ballet Music from Macbeth; Patria oppressa! from Macbeth; Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia from Ernani

August 16-17, 2013: The Rite of Spring
6:30 pm and 7:30 pm | Pritzker Pavillion, Chicago
This concert will feature choral music of John Adams with guest conductor Donald Nally, as well as the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky's epic orchestral Rite of Spring.

July 22, 2013: Exploring Folk Music
12:15 pm | Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Rd., Munster IN
The Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra and Girl Scouts of America are teaming up for a day of Girls in Music seminars and workshops. I'll be presenting three sessions of American folk songs with acoustic guitar.

July 8, 2013: Madison Early Music Festival Handel Aria Competition
7:00 pm | University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, Morphy Recital Hall, George Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St (Madison WI)
As a finalist in this competition I will sing "War he sung is toil and trouble" from Alexander's Feast and "Da tempeste" from Giulio Cesare. The final round of this competition is free and open to the public!

June 20-23, 2013: Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Mozart Vivaldi Verdi
Symphony Center, Chicago IL
A choral and orchestral celebration of the works of three great composers. See the CSO website for performance details.

May 19, 2013: CSO Chamber Music Concert
2:00 pm | Art Institute of Chicago
Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are collaborating for a series of chamber music concerts. I will be performing Shepherd on the Rock with Susan Merdinger (piano) and Lawrie Bloom (clarinet).

May 10, 2013: Singers On New Ground
7:00 pm | The Poetry Foundation (61 West Superior Street, Chicago)
Singers On New Ground (SONG) is celebrating National Poetry Month! New works comissioned for the event were composed by Eric Malmquist, Brian Baxter, Luke Gullickson, Seth Boustead, Jenna Lyle, and Liza White. The concert will feature the Chicago Q Ensemble, a string quartet. It's going to be a really exciting concert of great music and poetry!

April 22, 2013: Musicians Club of Women Award Winners Performance
12:15 pm | Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center (78 East Washington Street)
Yen-Yen and I will perform works by modern composers with texts by Emily Dickinson.

April 12, 2013: Outreach master class
1:15 pm | Willow Creek Middle School, Portage IN
I will give a short recital and master class for middle schoolers as part of my residence with the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra.

April 7, 2013: A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Music of Mendelssohn
3:30 pm | 1755 South Wolf Road, Des Plaines IL
The Northwest Symphony Orchestra in Chicago presents a concert of Mendelssohn, including the Midsummer Night's Dream suite.

April 6, 2013: Emily Dickinson in Songs and Letters
12:00 pm | Lutkin Hall
This recital will explore the life and spirit of Emily Dickinson through exerpts from her letters and settings of her poems by Hoiby, Gordon, and myself. With Yen-Yen Gee, piano.

March 11, 2013: Master Class with Gianna Rolandi
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University
Gianna Rolandi is the director of the Ryan Center at Chicago's Lyric Opera. She will coach several students of the Bienen School on opera arias.

March 10, 2013: A Night at the Opera
7:30 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University
The Northwestern Philharmonia will be joined by singers for a concert of opera arias and scenes. I will sing "Prendi" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore.

March 2, 2013: Chicago Arts Orchestra presents works by Billoni
8:00 pm | St. Michael's Church in Old Town, Chicago
Billoni was an Italian composer living and working in Mexico in the 18th century. This new edition of his work was prepared by Drew Edward Davies and will be presented with choir and orchestra.

January 28, 2013: Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
6:00 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University
The NU Chapel Choir will join in the ceremony of the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. The guest speaker will be Harry Belafonte.

December 14, 2012: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Welcome Yule
7:00 pm | Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
Whether you're young or old, naughty or nice, Welcome Yule! is just the ticket for heartwarming holiday cheer. The merry musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus promise a delightful program of new arrangements, cherished carols and some musical surprises. Join the fun with sing-alongs and rollicking traditional tunes, including "Christmas in Chicago"!

December 5, 2012: NU Contemporary Music Ensemble
7:30 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University
"Letters Made of Gold" by Shawn Jaeger with the Contemporary Music Ensemble

November 17, 2012: Celeste Markey, Clarinet
3:00 pm | Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University
"Shepherd on the Rock" by Schubert, with Celeste and Rachael

July 22 - August 14, 2012: Ravinia Steans Young Artist Program
Ravinia Park, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL
I am excited to have been selected as a Young Artist for this season's Steans Program at Ravinia! Recital dates and details can be found at www.ravinia.org

July 19 - June 22, 2012: Green Lake Festival of Music
Green Lake, Wisconsin
I will be a soloist with the chorus, led by Stephen Alltop

July 14, 2012: Mozart Event at WFMT
TBA | Live on WFMT and www.wfmt.com
A whole day of Mozart! Scenes will be presented from the Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan Tutte.

June 10, 2012: Beach Sunday at Glencoe Union Church
10:00 am | The beach down the street from GUC
Folk-style hymns with guitars, mandolin, banjo, flute, and trumpet! And a celebratory cook-out after the service!

April 29, 2012: VOX3 presents: 5 O'clock World
7:00 pm | Hamburger Marys, 5400 N. Clark Street, Chicago IL
This cabaret is an homage to those who work hard for the money. Dolly Parton tunes take their place alongside Frank Schubert songs. Gather around the water cooler and gossip with performers!

April 21, 2012: VOX3 Presents: 5 O'clock World
8:00 pm | Skyline Lounge (6th floor) at DANK Haus, 4740 N. Western Avenue
This cabaret is an homage to those who work hard for the money. Dolly Parton tunes take their place alongside Hugo Wolf songs. Included are lieder about traditional occupations, musical theatre standards, spirituals sung on plantations, and peppy pop tunes for when you're burned out by the daily grind. This concert will also feature the world premiere of my new piece, "I Work."

April 16, 2012: Northwestern Concerto Competition Finals
5:00 pm | Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University
I will be competing alongside other Bienen students. Rachael and I are reviving "Mignon" for those of you missed it the first time around!

October 17, 2011: Master Class with Ricky Ian Gordon
12:00 pm | Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University
A master class with Ricky Ian Gordon, in which he coaches students performing his works. I will be singing his setting of a Dickinson text, "You Cannot Put a Fire Out" from the cycle "Too Few the Mornings Be."